Why immigrants succeed in the spaza space – it’s complicated
In February, immigrant shopkeepers were violently targeted by South Africans who claimed they were stealing jobs and bringing down the economy.
On Tuesday, the Institute...
Tariro Ndoro’s Poems Speak About Unbelonging
Tariro Ndoro’s debut poetry collection tackles issues of identity and xenophobia. She turned her creative writing master's degree thesis into a book. The Daily Vox...
The Holocaust and Genocide Centre Remembers The 2008 Xenophobic Attacks
It's been 10 years since the 2008 xenophobic attacks that took place throughout the country, claiming the lives of 60 people and injuring hundreds....
Coping with xenophobic discrimination in South Africa
Ever since 2008, there has been periods of intense xenophobic violence and riots against black foreign nationals and immigrants. In the past fews years,...
Xenophobia Permeates All Levels Of South African Politics
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema made news headlines a few weeks ago when he questioned whether former president Jacob Zuma's children Duduzane...
Israel Is An Apartheid State
In our second op-ed for Israeli Apartheid Week, ALIE KOMAPE takes a look at how Israel’s racism and apartheid tactics oppress and violate not...
Rosettenville’s mob justice against illegal activities isn’t as simple as it...
On Sunday, 5 February, a group of over 100 residents from in and around Rosettenville, Johannesburg, gathered on Verona Street in protest against drug...
Afrophobia: South Africa’s selective xenophobia
This month, Afrophobia was back in the news. Incidents of violence and hostility towards immigrants are becoming so commonplace that South Africa is quickly...
The fight against sexism and GBV must include migrant, refugee women
By Terri Maggott
On August 2 2019, numerous reports of violent femicides sent shockwaves through the nation. In the same week, the news of brutal...
Africa Day: Exploitation ‘Driving’ Xenophobia in Cape Town
Escalating xenophobia in South Africa is tarnishing its "Rainbow Nation''. But over the past year, the spotlight has increasingly shifted focus to Cape Town...
As xenophobia returns to South Africa, Nigeria demands answers
The Nigerian government has demanded answers from the South African government after its citizens were attacked over the past two weeks in what is...
Claim That Zama Zamas Pose Threat To JHB Is “Xenophobic” –...
The City of Johannesburg is on the brink of impending doom. Well, that is according to a Sunday Times report from November 25. Quoting...
Nationalist pro-South African hashtags spread hate online
South Africa has a fatal history of violence against foreign nationals, particularly other Africans. In May 2008, 62 people died as a result of...
The Difference Between “Migrant” and “Immigrant”
Growth in the number of international migrants has been strong over the last two decades. The International Migration 2020 report highlights 281 million people...
Xenophobia: We Will Reap What We Sow
There's been a lot of middle-class hand-wringing about recent events, from the toppling of Rhodes to the latest outbreak of xenophobic attacks. But complacent...
Immigrants standing against illegal activity in Rosettenville face hostility from community
Monday in Rosettenville was an odd day.
A delegation of government officials, including Minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba, were doing the rounds visiting suburbs...
African Countries Demand Accountability For South African Xenophobia
South Africa has been gripped by xenophobic violence in the past years. For the past ten years or so, there have been repeated acts...
A Johannesburg, Migration Love Letter
I Want To Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa's Great Metropolis is a collection of 13 narrations that looks...
Xenophobia: a symptom of South Africa’s disillusionment
Xenophobia: an intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
That's how the resurgence of violent attacks, directed at foreign nationals living...
How xenophobia affects children: “I miss my school, and my teachers,...
In the latest video in its Voices from the Camps series, non-profit organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) profiled nine-year-old DOLLY MAKWAKWA, who was born...
